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music-glossary: hemiola

 
 1.154 hemiola
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 ES: hemiolia, I: emiolia, (rarely hemiola or emiola), F: hémiole, D:
 Hemiole, NL: ?, DK: ?, S: ?, FI: hemioli, 3/2 -suhde.
 
    [Greek: in Latin, _sesquialtera_] The ratio 3:2.
 
    Most frequently, a proportion (_q.v._)  of three notes of equal value
 in the time normally occupied by two.  The resulting rhythm can be
 expressed in modern terms as a substitution (for example) of a bar in
 3/2 for one of 6/4, or of a bar in 3/4 for one of 6/8.  During the
 Baroque era, hemiola is most frequently as a special effect (or
 _affect_) at cadences.
 
    For example, this phrase in 6/4 time
 
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    may be thought of having alternating time signatures
 
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    and is therefore a polymeter (second definition) of considerable
 antiquity.
 
 
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DONTPRINTYET     mensural notation, meter, polymeter, *noteDONTPRINTYET     mensural notation, meter, polymeter, 
 proportion.
 

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